“Living in a state of gratitude is the gateway to grace”. Arianna Huffington.
I am glad to sit and reflect about the month that has just gone by; April was an amazing month. A month filled with various activities/events – I was constantly shifting my focus from one event to another; So much has happened in the last 30 days.
I am highlighting a few of them to keep my energy levels high, that is what gratitude does to us. Gratitude is not just saying thanks for the few things in life, but it’s a whole attitude to be able to look at everything that is happening for my own greater good. It’s a way to look at life in a positive way, and become aware of how blessed you are for all little and the big things of life, which I don’t want to take it for granted, but in humility acknowledge all aspects of life and constantly keep giving thanks, as they say a thankful heart is a healthy heart.
Gratitude has kept me going, it has helped me magnify what I have in life rather than looking at what I don’t have. Gratitude has helped me to keep counting my blessings everyday and every moment of my life.
The post I make is only once a month, but I ensure that I keep the attitude of gratitude every day and every moment of my life.Here are some of the things I would like to be thankful for:
The fact that I am alive, healthy, riding regularly to work and being committed to my work that is not just paying me but also giving me a sense of fulfilment. I am grateful for I get to go to work every day.
I keep listening to the struggles of my students- I was handling issues concerning relationships, which was the number one problem faced by the students in this month. They keep hurting themselves without realizing that they have not set any boundary for themselves. I am glad that they are taking help and gradually are able to understand themselves and the contributions to their own problems. I am grateful that my students can trust me with their secrets.
There was women’s day celebration in our building in this month- being part of the Women Empowerment Cell. I was busy with the meetings, and we had the celebration on April 3rd 2025 at the conference hall. There were Women representation, -who inspired us with their personal and professional lives. There were 300 students and staff who attended this programme. I am grateful to be associated with this programme.
This month there were two birthdays on two different days – which we celebrated one was a college mate, her birthday was on Ugadi day – being a festival, she could not come out of the house, so we fixed another day and celebrated Kasturi’s birthday over lunch in a nice restaurant. The place was good, as it was newly done with lot of decoration and the food was delicious too.
The other birthday in this month was one of our colleagues who works in the area of mental health, Taj – we celebrated her, as her birthday came during the month of Ramzan and they were fasting, so we feasted😊 after Ramzan and this was celebrated at a place called Habitat a little beyond our usual meetings. This was a breakfast and we did enjoy the sandwiches, sausages and ham and egg, butter, cheese and of course there was chole bature too. I am grateful for these meetings as it helps us to stay connected with each other and also gives s opportunity to celebrate life.
I am glad that I completed my research work for the Diploma in Nutrition and Health Education (DNHE). I am grateful to my guide Ms Hannah Jessie for her help and support, for Sravani who was kind enough to show the sample as to how that needs to be done. I could complete this work and submit the hard bound copy one for the study centre and another to IGNOU (Indira Gandhi Open University) New Delhi. I kept one copy for myself - I am happy and grateful to have accomplished this work on time.
This month we had the holy week and this kept us busy attending all the services – from Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and also celebration of Easter Sunday. I am grateful that we had everything ready, I got my blouse stitched for one of the gift sarees I already had, there was no need to get a new one. Dorothy shopped a little and she got a beautiful green dress. She was also very busy in the church volunteering for various activities in the church along with the youth group. She went visiting the churches in the city along with her friends and she took beautiful pictures.
I am grateful for my sister-in-law Anuja – who helped me with all the domestic work, and it’s a big relief when we have people around us to help. I took her to the main market in the city as she also wanted to buy somethings for herself, so we went around the market and after all the shopping’s we picked up some fancy bangles, jasmine flowers and then we enjoyed light tiffin’s in a restaurant.
After the easter celebration I took a few days holidays with my friends and travelled to Panchagini- Mahabaleshwar, which are hill stations and 3 hours away from Pune city. It was a great place full of trees, sun rise and sun set points, and beautiful lake, and there was lot of tourist attractions for strawberries – this place was full of straw berries and there is huge garden called the MAPRO garden full of eateries, play area for kids and strawberry items like sauces, jams, chocolates and other items like cool drinks are sold.
It’s a fancy looking place maintained well and lot of people visit this place. I along with my friends visited and we also picked up some things as we did not want to overload our luggage’s, so we just took some small items that can be carried.
We stopped buy at Pune for a day and some friends chose to go around the city; but me and Dorothy preferred to visit an uncle who lost his young daughter, and also my cousin – we were happy to spend some time with our relatives, then we just went around MG Road and Fashion Street, picked up some snacks and came back. We returned the next day with early morning train and reached by evening. I will make a separate post for travel as there is so much to talk about my experiences visiting these two hill stations.
I am happy to complete this regular post, hope you had a great month too.
Wishing all of you Health and Happiness!
Thanks for reading this post.
